Clarence Fountain Quotations

We were blind, so everybody was dark to us,

We did find one that can do pretty good. But he's still not up to par because he can't sing background. He can do the front but not background. You have to be versatile.

If we do this movie, I think it will be time to retire. My theory is: Do something good in the end and that will close out your longevity. After that, you can go on home and sit down.

Some of the songs on the album I was with and some I was not. We had a song on the album with rap on it, and it sure wasn't any of us singing. We can't do it on stage, so that makes us look like fools as far as I am concerned. I usually say, 'Don't ever put out nothing that you can't sing on stage.' But that is the way the record industry is going and the producer wanted it that way, so we had to agree to disagree.

Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first started out singing, it was really more of a glee club,

Yeah, it's complicated. It's hard to find a guy that really can sing and is blind,

We have a message in store for you. We try to make you feel something that you have never felt before, and that's the spirit of God.

We didn't come all the way up from Alabama to Indiana looking for Jesus; we brought him with us.

We were on the same bill as this other blind group, Jackson Harmony, from Mississippi, ... Well, the promoter decided to bill it as 'the blind boys of Alabama against the blind boys of Mississippi.' The crowd loved us, the name stuck, and things took off for us.

Ben Harper came to us with some gospel songs in mind, and that worked. I thought that was a good idea to cut it with a rock 'n' roll guy because that shows he knew something about the Lord. We liked him and he liked us, and that made it better.

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

So we started singing, and eventually we began to think we had something special. I thought we could sing as well as The Golden Gate Quartet, and if they could go out in the world and do it, well, so could we.

That play was a hit from jump street, ... That changed our world forever.

For better or worse, I've always been ready to change,

All good things must come to an end. But if they decided to go on, I'm not going to stop them.